Best Buy gives PC games an isle or two which is more than what they offer other indiviual systems. Even Target and Walmart give PC games an isle, compared to a glass case. Usually PC Games get half of the space at Electronics Boutique stores. I don't think there is any merit to the claim.
I suppose all of that would change if the PC Games would distribute in consistently smaller packages.
I went out and bought 2 PSPs for Christmas. The PSP has a feature which allows you to share a game for multiplayer use. However, I have yet to find any sharable games worth playing (and I'm not going to buy the same game twice for one that won't share). Most of the games that take advantage of this feature just offer the second player a demo of the original game.
I'm hoping the PS3 release will fix the PSPs coolness problems. If the PS3 is a LocationFree Station out of the box then my PSPs will get much more use. I'm also hoping PS3 games will give me the option to migrate an active game to the PSP with a graphics penalty.
Currently they work pretty well as a portable web browser and train-ride gaming system. I can also use Socom for the PSP to accomplish side-quests for Socom 3 for the PS2, and vice-versa.
This was also my first computer. My second was a ITT Extra, an IBM PC-XT clone, with 1mb of ram. I got it at a pawn shop on a trade for my NES and a dozen games. I later replaced the text-only card with a Hercules monochrome 720x384 (?) card.
The Franklin Ace died when I plugged the expansion tab of the motherboard into an expansion slot on a TSR-80. The experiment was a complete success, with smoke and burned out - well, everything.
I liked the old mp3.com beamer system. You could insert all of your CDs, beamer would confirm through some algorythm that you had an original CD (or a complete copy I suppose), then you could access the CD through their web interface for free.
I have dozens of CDs that don't play anymore - some don't even show signs of physical wear. I would like to, one day, regain access to my virtual possessions stored on my defunct or lost physical possessions.
I think you are really discounting the effect of punishment in our system of jurisprudence. Ethics and morality aside, logic and wisdom tell you that you will be hunted down and/or caught then punished. That, for most people, is a strong deterrent; as is evidenced by our orderly society.
Neither the organization or someone in a position with the organization will breach the bounds of that with which they know they can not ultimately "get away". I've been in IT for a good long while and have had and continue to have access to more than a fair share of recycled passwords and secret numbers. And yet, I have never considered using any of that stuff outside of the sinister joke with a co-worker, a'la Office Space, sans the actual worm and setting the building on fire.
Thanks for the account on your board. I would also like to request warez and adult access if available. I am also a member with ops on the IceCave and Wastelands.
It's just not made easy enough for the average home user. If all new laptops and monitors had a webcam and microphone built into the display and the software (MSN Messenger, AIM, Skype whatever) that is preinstalled can bust through firewalls (upnp), then I think adoption would be much greater.
I'm hoping that Vonage, Packet8, and other VoIP folks can start using a video standard rather than their own concoctions.
US postage at $.37 (right?) that would be $5365 for Einstein and $2416 for Darwin.
That's covers about 7.5 years of Comcast HS, or about 45 years of free-$10 service (Juno, NetZero, Netscape, etc). Whence millions of messages can be freely sent (as is evidenced by my Junk folder).
I think communication has gotten cheaper. Especially international.
stick one of those bad boys on a feline or raticus (latin) and send him into the field equiped with a spycam. they can also be used to detonate mines... remotely.
In another commentary, David Coursey, a columnist for eWeek, expressed concern about moving the state to OpenDocument formats.
"I am concerned that by requiring OpenDocument that Mr. Quinn [state CIO] may be aligning Massachusetts with what becomes a second-rate file format as Microsoft keeps expanding into XML and metadata and OpenDocument may have trouble keeping up."
mjohansson@bang:/tmp$ file test.odt # OpenDocument file saved from OpenOffice Writer test.odt: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract mjohansson@bang:/tmp$ unzip -t test.odt Archive: test.odt testing: mimetype OK testing: Configurations2/ OK testing: Pictures/ OK testing: content.xml OK testing: styles.xml OK testing: meta.xml OK testing: Thumbnails/thumbnail.png OK testing: settings.xml OK testing: META-INF/manifest.xml OK
Notice how OpenOffice lags behind in technology, while Microsoft moves toward XML and meta files.
http://eab.abime.net/archive/index.php/t-5748.html has a list of some games that fit the bill. This site lists NARC among others. I don't remember what would happen if you got hit with a druggies needle - but I'm pretty sure they were hallucinagetic.
I was originally thinking ROTT as well (Where are you? Over heeere...).
Maybe, It's like the spoked rims on a pimped ride. When it spins forward really fast it appears to be spinning backward. So perhaps, millions of years ago, It was spinning VERY fast... So fast that the magnetic field lines appeared (and affected) backward from the flow. And then when the flow slowed, the field normalized. And so on, until we get our current rates.
They should notice different levels of gravity when they travel from planet to planet on StarGate. Yeah, I know, everyone speaks English, but I hadn't considered the gravity thing before...
Captain: What happen ? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb. Operator: We get signal. Captain: What ! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !! CATS: All your base are belong to us. CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !! CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time. CATS: Ha Ha Ha Ha....
What is UMD?
UMD (Universal Media Disc) is a new, proprietary, high-capacity optical medium enabling game software, full-motion video and other forms of digital entertainment content such as movies and music, to be stored. The newly developed UMD is the next-generation compact storage media and at only 60mm in diameter, can store up to 1.8GB of digital data, making it perfect for a portable entertainment player like the PSP system. UMD stores a broad range of digital entertainment content including games, music, movies, and more.
209086 - (NO NUMBER ASSIGNED)
OCULUS INNOVATIVE SCIENCES, INC.
OCULUS MICROCYN DISINFECTANT (OMD) USE: DISINFECTANT - FOR THE CONTROL OF VARIOUS ORGANISMS SUCH AS SALMONELLA TYPHI, ESCHERICHIA COLI, AND PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA ON TUBS, DESKS, AND APPLIANCES TYPE: SECTION 3 REGISTRATION - ACTIVE INGREDIENT(S):
HYPOCHLOROUS ACID
SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE CAS NUMBER(S): 7790-92-3, 7681-52-9
Maybe some/. chemists can explain the good of those ingredients.
It would further acceptance of the format, increase competition among players (reducing prices), and would probably add credibility to the longevity of iPod (not to mention UMD).
Doesn't Linux handle HT the same way it handles SMP? So even if there was a hole in HT, hardware-wise, software wise you would be just as protected as you would be on an SMP system?
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They warned us about the black shakes...
Best Buy gives PC games an isle or two which is more than what they offer other indiviual systems. Even Target and Walmart give PC games an isle, compared to a glass case. Usually PC Games get half of the space at Electronics Boutique stores. I don't think there is any merit to the claim.
I suppose all of that would change if the PC Games would distribute in consistently smaller packages.
I went out and bought 2 PSPs for Christmas. The PSP has a feature which allows you to share a game for multiplayer use. However, I have yet to find any sharable games worth playing (and I'm not going to buy the same game twice for one that won't share). Most of the games that take advantage of this feature just offer the second player a demo of the original game.
I'm hoping the PS3 release will fix the PSPs coolness problems. If the PS3 is a LocationFree Station out of the box then my PSPs will get much more use. I'm also hoping PS3 games will give me the option to migrate an active game to the PSP with a graphics penalty.
Currently they work pretty well as a portable web browser and train-ride gaming system. I can also use Socom for the PSP to accomplish side-quests for Socom 3 for the PS2, and vice-versa.
This was also my first computer. My second was a ITT Extra, an IBM PC-XT clone, with 1mb of ram. I got it at a pawn shop on a trade for my NES and a dozen games. I later replaced the text-only card with a Hercules monochrome 720x384 (?) card.
The Franklin Ace died when I plugged the expansion tab of the motherboard into an expansion slot on a TSR-80. The experiment was a complete success, with smoke and burned out - well, everything.
I liked the old mp3.com beamer system. You could insert all of your CDs, beamer would confirm through some algorythm that you had an original CD (or a complete copy I suppose), then you could access the CD through their web interface for free.
I have dozens of CDs that don't play anymore - some don't even show signs of physical wear. I would like to, one day, regain access to my virtual possessions stored on my defunct or lost physical possessions.
I think you are really discounting the effect of punishment in our system of jurisprudence. Ethics and morality aside, logic and wisdom tell you that you will be hunted down and/or caught then punished. That, for most people, is a strong deterrent; as is evidenced by our orderly society.
Neither the organization or someone in a position with the organization will breach the bounds of that with which they know they can not ultimately "get away". I've been in IT for a good long while and have had and continue to have access to more than a fair share of recycled passwords and secret numbers. And yet, I have never considered using any of that stuff outside of the sinister joke with a co-worker, a'la Office Space, sans the actual worm and setting the building on fire.
Zipper went completely under my radar. I think SOCOM is one of the best PS2 games out there. This is probably good news, or good PR.
NOTE TO SYSOP:
Thanks for the account on your board. I would also like to request warez and adult access if available. I am also a member with ops on the IceCave and Wastelands.
Thanks again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo_Saxon_Pro testant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp
It's just not made easy enough for the average home user. If all new laptops and monitors had a webcam and microphone built into the display and the software (MSN Messenger, AIM, Skype whatever) that is preinstalled can bust through firewalls (upnp), then I think adoption would be much greater.
I'm hoping that Vonage, Packet8, and other VoIP folks can start using a video standard rather than their own concoctions.
US postage at $.37 (right?) that would be $5365 for Einstein and $2416 for Darwin.
That's covers about 7.5 years of Comcast HS, or about 45 years of free-$10 service (Juno, NetZero, Netscape, etc). Whence millions of messages can be freely sent (as is evidenced by my Junk folder).
I think communication has gotten cheaper. Especially international.
stick one of those bad boys on a feline or raticus (latin) and send him into the field equiped with a spycam. they can also be used to detonate mines... remotely.
The RIAA took my baby away,
they took her away,
Away from me-ay..
Notice how OpenOffice lags behind in technology, while Microsoft moves toward XML and meta files.
http://eab.abime.net/archive/index.php/t-5748.html has a list of some games that fit the bill. This site lists NARC among others. I don't remember what would happen if you got hit with a druggies needle - but I'm pretty sure they were hallucinagetic.
I was originally thinking ROTT as well (Where are you? Over heeere...).
Maybe, It's like the spoked rims on a pimped ride. When it spins forward really fast it appears to be spinning backward. So perhaps, millions of years ago, It was spinning VERY fast... So fast that the magnetic field lines appeared (and affected) backward from the flow. And then when the flow slowed, the field normalized. And so on, until we get our current rates.
Something put, that is, up with which he will not.
They should notice different levels of gravity when they travel from planet to planet on StarGate. Yeah, I know, everyone speaks English, but I hadn't considered the gravity thing before...
Captain: What happen ?
....
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: All your base are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha Ha Ha Ha
I'ld love to see previews of this nature for the PS3. Please, reply with links if they exist..
Straight from the source:
I read the Wired article and became hopeful. I wasn't as turned off by the market-ish site as other Slashdotters.
I followed up with an "oculus site:.gov" search and found that the FDA has classified Microcyn as a disinfectant.
And, the California Dept. of Pesticide Regulation lists the evaluation of Microcyn as follows,
Maybe some /. chemists can explain the good of those ingredients.
It would further acceptance of the format, increase competition among players (reducing prices), and would probably add credibility to the longevity of iPod (not to mention UMD).
Doesn't Linux handle HT the same way it handles SMP? So even if there was a hole in HT, hardware-wise, software wise you would be just as protected as you would be on an SMP system?
I hope those monkeys lost their arms of natural causes.